When Hong Kong officials locked up huge warehouses stocked with millions of traditional medicines containing tiger and rhino parts in 1993, Judy Mills hoped they would never see the light of the day.
With its close links to China, it may seem paradoxical that Hong Kong has long lagged behind Taiwan, Japan and South Korea in integrating traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) into its healthcare
The use and abuse of the environment is a complex matter, especially in the vast but fragile Amazon rainforest. Logging, mining and large scale agriculture have been important sources of jobs and
Work at Sri Lanka's tea industry came to grinding halt yesterday as over half-a -million plantation workers struck work demanding better wages. Negotiations between the trade unions representing the
The World Bank will sanction a substantial amount for pollution control in Tamil Nadu, according to Mr. M. Devaraj, Chairman of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control
The country has lost 5,500 square kilometres of forest cover since the last assesment in 1995, according to the State of Forest Report 1997. Madhya Pradesh and Andhra pradesh have been the worst
An action plan has been recommended for adoption of economic and eco-friendly water jet techniques at the 5th Pacific Rim International Conference on Water Jet Technology (ICWJT) held here this
The Supreme Court today directed the customs to stop auciton or release of stockpiles of imported hazardous wastes consignments abandoned at various docks, ports and inland container depots in the
